Anonymous ID: e9acc3 Aug. 31, 2021, 10:47 p.m. No.14501707   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1753

A timeline of Michael Flynn’s troubles with the Obama and Trump administrations

 

April 17, 2012: President Barack Obama nominates Flynn, a U.S. Army lieutenant general who led operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn takes over in July and, as part of his appointment, is given top-level security clearance.

 

April 30, 2014: Flynn announces his retirement from the DIA about a year earlier than expected. Media reports reveal that Flynn was effectively forced out over his combative management style and clashes over his attempted overhaul of the agency. The New Yorker later reports that DIA subordinates mocked Flynn for his loose relationship with the truth and said he spewed so-called "Flynn facts." Flynn will become a vocal critic of Obama.

 

December 10, 2015: Flynn attends a Moscow gala for the Russian state-run news outlet RT, where he is seated next to the nation's president, Vladimir Putin. Flynn gets paid $33,750 for his hour-long talk at the event.

 

January 2016: Despite getting pushed out by the Obama administration, Flynn has his security clearance renewed.

 

 

 

January 31, 2017: Trump fires Sally Yates, the acting U.S. attorney general, after she tells the Justice Department not to defend Trump's travel bans, which will later be halted by federal courts. After her ouster, multiple media reports indicate Yates warned White House officials about Flynn's Russian relations and said they could become a serious issue. The White House denies this.

 

February 13, 2017: Facing continued scrutiny over the Russia call, Flynn resigns 24 days into his tenure with Trump, departing as the short-serving national security adviser.

 

March 8, 2017: Flynn registers with the Justice Department as a foreign agent who did $530,000 worth of lobbying work before Election Day, on behalf of a Dutch company tied to the Turkish government.

 

Flynn did this work even while advising the Trump campaign and sitting in one some of Trump's classified security briefings.

 

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/timeline-michael-flynn-obama-trump-troubles-article-1.3147873